With the expansion of old Beijing several times, there are currently 16 districts under its jurisdiction, namely Dongcheng District, Xicheng District, Chaoyang District, Fengtai District, Shijingshan District, Haidian District, Shunyi District, Tongzhou District, Daxing District, Fangshan District, Mentougou District, Changping District, Pinggu District, Miyun District, Huairou District, and Yanqing District.
The overall naming convention is divided into the following categories:
▲Humanistic map of Beijing
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the first category: named after the city gate</h1>
The districts named after this mainly include: Xicheng District, Dongcheng District, Chaoyang District, and chongwen district and Xuanwu district, which were originally abolished.
The overall building of Beijing is a circular layout, which was fixed when the Ming Yongle Emperor Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing. The smallest of these rings is the Second Ring Road, which is roughly equivalent to the inner city of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
There are nine gates in the inner city, of which the name of Xicheng District comes from Xizhimen, which is the famous water gate of that year, and the royal water is taken from the western suburbs and passes through this gate.
The name Dongcheng District comes from Dongzhimen. The area around Dongzhimen has become a foodie concentration, and The famous name of Guijie Street has an absolute seat on Beijing's food list.
The name of Chaoyang District is derived from Chaoyang Gate, which is the gate where grain came and went in that year. Therefore, in today's Chaoyang Gate, there are also place names such as "Lumi Warehouse", "Shipping Warehouse", and "New Taicang".
▲Gui Street
Chongwen District, named after Chongwenmen, was originally the smallest district in old Beijing, and was later merged with Dongcheng District in 2010 to become the new Dongcheng District.
Xuanwu District, named after Xuanwu Gate, was also merged with Xicheng District in 2010 to become the New Xicheng District.
Chongwen Gate and Xuanwu Gate are almost symmetrical two city gates, one text and one wu, which also correspond to the directions on both sides of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
▲Chongwenmen City Tower
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > second category: named according to terrain</h1>
The districts named after this mainly include: Shijingshan District, Haidian District, Tongzhou District, Fangshan District, Mentougou District, Pinggu District, and Miyun District.
Shijingshan District and Fangshan District are best understood, and are taken from Shijingshan and Fangshan respectively. Miyun District is similar and takes its name from Miyun Mountain. However, Miyun Mountain is not in Beijing, but in the territory of present-day Fengning County, Hebei Province.
Haidian District, "hai" can be understood as water, "dian" is the place where water gathers. As early as the Ming Dynasty, this place was a swamp, and some people settled here, known as "Haidian" or "Haidian". It was later named after it.
Tongzhou District is because of the canal. Jiangnan is rich, grain production to Beijing Cao transport, can pass through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Tongzhou is the northern end of the canal, taking the meaning of "canal water transport smooth and good".
▲Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal
The mentougou area got its name from the door head ditch that circled the door to the wind outlet saddle.
Pinggu District got its name because of the terrain, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and flat in the middle, and there was a place name of "Pinggu County" during the Han Dynasty.
▲Beijing topography
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the third category: named after ancient place names</h1>
The districts named after this mainly include: Shunyi District, Daxing District, Changping District, Huairou District, Yanqing District.
The name of Shunyi District can be traced back to Emperor Wen of Sui, when the eight Turkic tribes were subordinate to Shun, and the imperial court placed them in the area of present-day Shunyi, and named the area "Shunzhou", which later evolved into "Shunyi".
Daxing District originated from daxing province established here by the Jin Dynasty, and its name means "grand and prosperous".
▲ Jin zhongdu - Yuan Dadu - Forbidden City
Changping District. The first empress of our country was Empress Lü, who had crowned Emperor Hui's son Liu Tai as the Marquis of Changping and set up the state of Changping (侯), taking the name meaning "Prosperity and Peace". Hence the name.
Huairou District. "Huai" is the meaning of coming, "soft" is the meaning of appeasement, the Tang Dynasty has the name of "Huairou", in order to appease the people.
▲Huairou Yanqi Lake
Yanqing District, according to the normal ancient place name, this should be called Longqing District. Because during the ming jianwen emperor, this place was called Longqingwei, and later when Emperor Ming Muzong came, its era name was Longqing, in order to avoid secrecy, it was changed to "Yanqing Prefecture".
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the fourth category: the disputed Fengtai District</h1>
Fengtai District. There are two main sources of the name of Fengtai District, and coincidentally, the proposer of these two statements is a father and son...
The proposer of the first theory was Zhu Yizun, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, who believed that Fengtai was the abbreviation of Fengtai "Jinzhongdu Fengyimen Outer Gate Worship Suburban Platform", and today's You'anmen Street, Niu Street, Changchun Street to downtown area, roughly the north-south thoroughfare of Zhongdu;
▲Fengtai District
The proposer of the second theory is Zhu Kuntian, the son of Zhu Yizun, who believes that the name of Fengtai District originates from the famous villa group "Yuanfengtai" in the Jin Dynasty, which was later changed to "Fengtai". At that time, the YuanfengTai was unique in the Jin Dynasty, and various dignitaries and dignitaries were accommodated.
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